MFK Ružomberok (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈruʐɔmberɔk] ) is a Slovak professional football club, playing in the city of Ružomberok.
Established in 1906, the club's colours have been traditionally white, yellow and red, which are also featured on the town's flag. However, the sponsor Mondi Business Paper SCP introduced new colours in 2005: orange, black and white.
In 1993 the club gained promotion to the Slovak Second Division for the first time and a second promotion to the Corgoň Liga in 1997. The club's trophy cabinet stayed empty until their centenary year, when in 2006 they lifted both the Corgoň Liga title and the Slovak Cup with the help of 21 goals from the league's joint top scorer Erik Jendrišek. Other stars of the team in this successful season were Jan Nezmar and Marek Sapara. The team was coached at that time by František Komňacký who in February 2007 went on to SKVO Rostov-on-Don.Corgoň liga: Komňacký v Ružomberku skončil
The league win gained them entry into the Champions league second qualifying stage, there they met Swedish side Djurgårdens IF, Ružomberok lost the first leg 1–0 but managed to pull back the deficit to win 3–2 on aggregate. The next round saw them meet Russian champions CSKA Moscow, the team lost conceding 5 goals without reply.
Slovak League top goalscorer since 1993–94
MFK have produced numerous players that have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last period there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Ružomberok after a few years of first-team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, mostly Czech First League (Igor Žofčák[1] and Juraj Kucka to Sparta Prague[2] in 2007 and 2009, Maroš Klimpl and Tomáš Oravec[3] to Viktoria Žižkov in 2001 and 2002, Dušan Švento to SK Slavia Prague in 2005,[4] Marián Had to Brno in 2004,[5] Marek Bakoš to Viktoria Plzeň in 2009,[6] and Tomáš Ďubek to Slovan Liberec in 2014[7]), Belgian Pro League (Martin Regáli to K.V. Kortrijk in 2023). In 2005–06 best goalscorer Erik Jendrišek moved to German Hannover 96.[8] In 2017 Michal Faško moved to Swiss Grasshopper.[9] The top transfer was agreed in 2006 when 24 years old attacking midfielder Marek Sapara moved to Norwegian champion Rosenborg BK for a fee €1.3 million.[10]
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Updated 10 July, 2024[20]Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2024.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Slovak League only (1993–present)
Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for MFK.
Ladislav Almási Peter Babnič Marek Bakoš
Anatol Cheptine Martin Chrien
Gagik Daghbashyan Ondrej Debnár Tomáš Ďubek Marián Had Ľuboš Hajdúch
Nermin Haskić
Viliam Hýravý Ivan Hodúr Martin Jakubko Erik Jendrišek Maroš Klimpl
Uladzimir Karytska
Tihomir Kostadinov Juraj Kotula Pavel Kováč Ivan Kozák Dominik Kružliak Juraj Kucka Richard Lásik Jiří Novotný
Patrick Oboya Tomáš Oravec Dejan Peševski
Artur Pikk
Kristi Qose Marek Sapara Martin Regáli Tomáš Rigo Štefan Senecký Jiří Skalák Valery Strypeykis Dušan Švento Rudolf Urban Yani Urdinov Ľubomír Talda
Léandre Tawamba Viktor Tegelhoff Darko Tofiloski Ivan Trabalík Tibor Zátek Adam Zreľák Vladislav Zvara Igor Žofčák Ladislav Jurkemik (1998–99) Mikuláš Komanický (2001–02) Jozef Vukušič (2003–04) Ľubomír Moravčík (2004–05) František Komňacký (2005–07) Petr Uličný (2007) Přemysl Bičovský (2007–08) Ladislav Jurkemik (2008) Michal Bílek (1 July 2008 – 30 Jun 2009) František Straka (1 Jun 2009 – 30 Jun 2010) Ladislav Jurkemik (1 July 2010 – 15 Oct 2010)
Goran Milojević (16 Oct 2010 – 31 Mar 2011) Ladislav Jurkemik (1 Apr 2011 – Sep 22, 2011) Aleš Křeček (Sept 22, 2011 – 30 June 2012) Ladislav Šimčo (1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013) Jozef Vukušič (1 July 2013 – 17 March 2014) Jozef Chovanec (17 Mar 2014 – 30 Jun 2014) Ladislav Šimčo (5 June 2014 – 17 Nov 2014) Ivan Galád (17 Nov 2014 – Sept 2, 2015) Ladislav Pecko (Sept 11, 2015 – 30 May 2016) Norbert Hrnčár (30 May 2016 – 30 May 2018) David Holoubek (4 June 2018 – May 2019) Ján Haspra (May 2019 - 27 May 2021) Peter Struhár (31 May 2021 – 29 May 2023) Peter Tomko (5 June 2023 – 24 Oct 2023) Ondřej Smetana (24 October 2023 - )MFK Ružomberok B is the reserve team of MFK Ružomberok.
Ružomberok B's best result in Slovak 2. liga was a 7th position in 2009–10 season and 2011–12 season. In May 2012 the club withdrew from the Slovak 2. liga. Their place in the league was taken by FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín. Notable former players which later played First league were: Štefan Pekár, Libor Hrdlička, Juraj Dovičovič, Lukáš Greššák, Juraj Dovičovič and Roland Števko.
Ivan Hucko (2004–05) Ladislav Molnár (2008) Roman Berta Ján Haspra Vladimír Rusnák (2011–12) Viliam HýravýOfficial website:
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